Metresponse - Dynamic Solutions to Omics

Fariba Assadi-Porter, PhD

Founder & CEO

Dr. Assadi-Porter is an expert Chemist and Biochemist with over 20 years of training in wide range of metabolism studies, biophysical techniques (NMR/MS, imaging) and breath analysis.Dr. Assadi-Porter obtained her undergraduate degree in chemistry at UW-Madison, and Ph.D. from Biomolecular Chemistry at UW-Madison Medical School. She was Senior Scientist at the Department of Biochemistry and NMR National Facility at Madison (NMRFAM) Wisconsin, and a Principal Investigator on several large NIH funded and private grants. Later, she was Research Associate Professor at Department of Nutritional Sciences and Obesity Research Cluster at Texas Tech University. She won prizes for transdisciplinary Research and Mentoring Junior Faculty research and grant projects. She has expertise in multidisciplinary collaborations in metabolism(i.e. metablomics, transciptomics and lipidomics), bioinformatics and protein chemistry. She has many publications in isotope labeling platforms, protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions, metabolomics, and pathway analysis.

Ebru Selin Selen-Alpergin, PhD

Co-Founder & CSO

Ebru Selen-Alpergin initiated her graduate studies in Comparative Biomedical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During MSctraining, she studied the metabolic effect and gene-metabolome interactions in the PCOS-like mouse model using treatment regime with the 3-Iodothronamine, a natural throid hormone analog She carried out her PhD work in the Department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she completed her graduate work under the mentorship of Dr. Assadi-Porter. The main focus of her PhD projectwas the molecular understanding of the progression of PCOS by investigating dynamics of bimolecular changes in a tissue specific manner in the mouse model. She identified profound changes in the metabolism, metabolic flow to gene network. Metabolomics, transcriptomics, and statistical data analysis were three major analytical techniques that she mastered during her graduate studies. Her enthusiasm in applying various algorithms (PCA, PLSDA, clustering and other statistical analysis) for data analysis in metabolomics and linking them to gene-network enabled her to participate in many transdisciplinary collaborations from campus-wide to international studies. She developed deep understanding of experimental design for in vitro (normal cells, stem cells to cancer cells) and in vivo models (whole animal levels from rodents to humans). Because of her background and training, she is able to integrate complex -omics data into functional information. She links art to science by visually articulating the big scientific findings with her original artworks that can be used in scientific publications and presentations.

Sherri Aminshahidy, Msc

Developer